Mac and Cheese

2 cups sharp cheddar or
1 cup not particularly sharp cheddar and
2 tbsp scary potted cheese product
4 tbsp cream cheese
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp flour
1/4 onion
Olive oil
Dash of nutmeg
3 cups (dry) macaroni
4 pieces buttered stale bread
Cook the macaroni until it’s soft enough to eat, but tough enough to stick in your teeth. While it’s cooking, in a [...]

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Been a Long Time

It’s harvest season, which means that today after work at the cafe, I trotted to to the market up the street and bought 20lbs of food in root vegetable and apple form.
I’ve been in the kitchen since about 11:30, paring, peeling, chopping, coring, sorting, washing. Everything that’s getting processed today is on the stove, [...]

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A Most Amazing Salad

Cut up some jicama (peeled) and cut the same amount of ripe sweet mango. Dice and mix in a bowl. Devour. Be pleased.
Your easy, healthy recipes, please?

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Chocolate and Rosemary Ice Cream

I had this jar of last year’s rosemary that I needed to use up. So I made ice cream (here’s how), but instead of infusing vanilla into the cream, I melted the chocolate and then stirred in a palmful of the rosemary in. I let that steep while I cooked the egg and strained it [...]

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Food links

After my post on Science and Baking I got a few tips from blog readers. They were great, and I wanted to share them:
Flannelberry told me about this site, where you can learn how to smoke, cure, can, freeze, dry and store food.
Jason suggested the book I’m Just Here for the Food if you like [...]

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Gifts

Gift boxes full of goodies are now complete. I put the treats in old cigar boxes (five bucks a piece from Old Morris and all the proceeds to a local food bank).

Go on. Tell me the mini ginger cakes with lime-scented icing and citron garnish don’t look like boobies.

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Baking Meringues

Winterval is upon us. It’s cold, it’s wet and the place smells kinda whiffy because the balcony door is always closed. It’s time to bake.
I’m giving food gifts to friends this year. Every one of us is perpetually broke, but all of us have amazing food-related skills. Stuart makes his own Thai fish sauce, Sarah [...]

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Maple and Cinnamon Ice Cream

Oh my god, I can’t believe how good this turned out to be. If you want to make it, here’s the recipe. Incidentally, the trick to making ice cream freeze fast is the ice bath after cooking, so don’t skip it. It looks like extra work but it’s going to save hours of going to [...]

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What’s for Dinner

I haven’t done a homemakery post for a while, so it’s time. Here you go:
I’m rested and now I’m getting dinner ready, but I’m still feeling lazy. This means that I’m making a meal that takes almost zero prep, basically cooks itself, takes one (possibly two) pans and is a perfect winter meal. I’m baking [...]

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Apple Pie

Apples are delicious and plentiful this time of year and everyone in the neighborhood has a tree that’s groaning under its load. We were lucky enough to wind up with two huge bags of beautiful, rosy, organic apples in our fridge. We can’t eat them all (despite our best efforts) so we’re having pie after [...]

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